Veteran of the Edition Wars [comedy]

[Matt James]

I prodded Weem to make a cool icon to help and poke fun at the 'edition wars'. It's also a half-throwback to Firefly and the battle of Serenity Valley. As a consumer of each product and company, I thought it was funny. And yes, this post is just so I can check it out myself----live.

 

[Fifth Element]

How about a "Survivor of the Edition Wars" for the many who did not fight in the wars but suffered the consequences anyway?

 

[Dedekind]

1) That is awesome.

2) I think an alternative would be to have "medals" like the army. You get one medal for each D&D transition you "survived."

 

[Mark CMG]

Some might find a revisionist approach more to their liking . . .

 

[Achan hiArusa]

1) That is awesome.

2) I think an alternative would be to have "medals" like the army. You get one medal for each D&D transition you "survived."

So I've played the Holmes set (my first game), BE, BECMI, AD&D (1st and 2nd Edition), D&D (3rd Edition), and I've played a little bit of 4th. So how many medals is that?

 

[JohnRL]

So I've played the Holmes set (my first game), BE, BECMI, AD&D (1st and 2nd Edition), D&D (3rd Edition), and I've played a little bit of 4th. So how many medals is that?

6 transitions, so 6 medals (campaign medals?). Personally I would award myself 4 (Moldvay Basic > Mentzer Basic/Expert > 1st Ed AD&D > 2nd Ed AD&D > 3rd Ed D&D) although it could be argued that Moldvay and Mentzer Basic D&D are so similar that there wasn't much transition - perhaps a badge, or mention in dispatches for surviving Moldvay > Mentzer and 3.0 > 3.5

 

[Henry]

(With apologies to Blue Oyster Cult)
Come see me now, a Veteran
Of The Edition Wars
I've been fighting on the web so long
Where the whine of gamers soar
And I'm not too young to roll dice
But far too old to see
All the crit hits are on the inside
Not sure what's left called D&D

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Beaten to the filkin' punch!

 

[Psion]

(With apologies to Blue Oyster Cult)
Come see me now, a Veteran
Of The Edition Wars

Congrats. You just recreated one of my old sig quotes.

 

[Dedekind]

6 transitions, so 6 medals (campaign medals?). Personally I would award myself 4 (Moldvay Basic > Mentzer Basic/Expert > 1st Ed AD&D > 2nd Ed AD&D > 3rd Ed D&D) although it could be argued that Moldvay and Mentzer Basic D&D are so similar that there wasn't much transition - perhaps a badge, or mention in dispatches for surviving Moldvay > Mentzer and 3.0 > 3.5

No, no, no. Only major edition wars get medals. But you get an oak leaf cluster to indicate survival of multiple versions of the same edition.

Oak leaf cluster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fortunately, I have only earned one purple heart as the result of a campaign prematurely ended due to an edition war.